Student Spotlights

Meet Annette

December 20, 2018

Annette is currently a senior attending San Miguel High School in Tucson, where she started as a freshman through support of the Arizona Leadership Foundation. She really likes the Corporate Work Study Program at San Miguel. She believes it has …

Meet Jacob, a junior at Phoenix Country Day School (PCDS). Jacob has been attending PCDS since fifth grade. He has a 3.98 grade point average and is already looking ahead to college. Here is Jacob’s story in his own words.…

Daniel Szymanski ‘s medical journey began at 4 weeks old. As a newborn, Daniel began having seizures. He was immediately admitted to Phoenix Children’s Hospital where his family learned about his brain abnormalities, called Polymicrogyria. This was the cause of …

Noah is currently a senior in high school, who has been attending Intermountain Academy for three years. He is on the Autistic spectrum. Before Intermountain Academy, he went to a public high school where he was in a special education …

This is not only a student spotlight, but the story of how a family found the right educational environment at Christ’s Greenfield Lutheran School. Meet the Stephens family: Silas, the oldest is going into fourth grade, the middle daughter, Journey …

Meet Ariel Jones she will be in 9th Grade at New Way Academy this fall. She chose this school because it has reading and speech therapy programs. At her previous school, she did not have a lot of services to …

Leslie is going into 7th grade at St. John the Evangelist in Tucson. Leslie just completed her fifth year at the school. Her mother, Erika, was looking for a Catholic school environment because she thought it would be a better …

Recently San Miguel High School Alumni, Andreina Valenzuela spoke to a group at Geico’s 15th Anniversary Celebration about how her experience being a recipient of an Arizona Leadership Foundation Scholarship and where she is today.

The York family had previously been home-schooling their children and then tried a local charter school. It turned out to not be the right fit for their family. The father, Jerimiah York who is a Pastor at Pastor Ridge Christian …

Nini Isabel Preciado is a senior at Yuma Catholic High School. Before she started high school, she had accumulated thirteen college math credits while in middle school by promising that she would strive for an engineering degree in college. Nini …

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